Meaning of mirach | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The abdominal wall.
   obsolete
2. A red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange-red star marking the waist or girdle of the chained woman in the northern constellation of Andromeda.

Examples

“Gordonius[…]confirms as much, putting the “matter⟳ of melancholy sometimes in the stomach, liver, heart, brain, spleen, myrach, hypochondries, whenas the melancholy humour resides there, or the liver is not well cleansed from melancholy blood.””

“[Mirach was described in the Alfonsine Tables of 1521 as super mirat, from which has been derived its present⟳ title, as well as the occasional forms Mirac, Merach, Mirar, Mirath, Mirax, etc.; mirat probably coming from the 1515 Almagest's super mizar, the Arabic mi'zar, a girdle or waist-cloth. Scaliger, the great critical scholar of the 15th century, adopted this Mizar as a title, and Riccioli followed him in its use⟳, thus confounding the star with ζ Ursae Majoris.]”

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